We reported last week on the mess in Milwaukee's primary election where a "programming error" is blamed for some 80,000 votes being recorded, when only 45,000 people actually voted. A recount was held to determine what the real vote count was. The city, however, was only concerned with the number of voters, as opposed to whether or not the votes were actually recorded accurately.

If you thought there were computer glitches during the light vote in last week's primary, just wait until November with a heavy turnout for the governor's race in Wisconsin and in hard-fought Senate and congressional races across the country.

In November, a third of all precincts in the country will be using brand-new electronic voting systems for the first time.

As we learned in Milwaukee and Waukesha, newly trained poll workers breaking in untested electronic systems will discover so many bugs you'll think the elections are taking place in a tropical flophouse.

Joel McNally co-hosts the "Morning Magazine" show from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on 1290 WMCS-AM.

Funny how in Wisconsin, after the theft of the 2004 election (with OH being used to put the chimperor "over the top") The MILWAUKEE URINAL-GENITAL (WI's largest newspaper) tried to made inner-city vote fraud out to the be biggest problem. Kerry won the state and while Milwaukee went to Kerry, it did not swing or skew the results from the rest of the state.

Like the lying liars in the MSM, politicians on BOTH sides, and even the so-called-left blogosphere, the integrity of the 2004 results was never questioned (Keith Olbermann was a lone exception in MSM). Atrios actually banned an dialog about the results.

The Milwaukee Urinal-Genital even took this one better - they lead the charge that inner-city vote fraud (skewing democratic) was a "crisis" that threatened our democracy. They hyped this bogus issues and provided the "springboard" for new voter ID laws.

Typical neocon/repug lie, cheat & steal tactics - and then they create a major distraction with fake issues, always using the MSM as a "mighty wurlitzer" create the illustion that the manufactured "crisis" or distraction" is legit.

Add the votes you morons. Turnout is quite often the stumbling block of vote reporting systems. For some reason vendors just can't add precinct turnout. However, votes cast for any one contest should come close to the actual turnout (excepting over and under votes).